Damir Kovacevic, Assistant Professor, November 2020
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Damir Kovacevic, Assistant Professor, November 2020
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Interviewee: Professor Damir Kovacevic
Interviewer: Samuel Moran
Date: November 16th, 2020.
Location of Interview: Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The United States of America.
Format: Video recording, Zoom
Transcriber: Samuel Moran
Additional transcription equipment used: Otter.ai
Project in association with: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Interviewer: Samuel Moran
Date: November 16th, 2020.
Location of Interview: Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The United States of America.
Format: Video recording, Zoom
Transcriber: Samuel Moran
Additional transcription equipment used: Otter.ai
Project in association with: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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Oral history transcript
Date
November 16, 2020
Creator
Samuel Moran
Contributor
Alexis Polencheck
Abstract
Professor Damir Kovacevic was born in Bosnia before coming to the United States. He has lived across the midwest but currently lives in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Damir works as an assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire with a focus on international relations. In this interview, Damir Kovacevic discusses how the pandemic has affected his life, profession, and emotions. Damir provides insight into how the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has handled the pandemic with testing and closing the college for the remainder of the Fall 2020 semester. Damir also touches on how Eau Claire, the state of Wisconsin, the United States, and foreign countries on the international scale handled the pandemic. He discusses how teaching as a career has changed and adapted to the pandemic. He discusses topics such as the media and misinformation when it comes to healthcare and the virus, but also the general decay in trust.
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